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Munoz Sporting Equipment manufactures baseball bats and tennis rackets. Department B produces the baseball bats, and Department T produces the tennis rackets. Munoz currently uses plantwide allocation to allocate its overhead to all products. Direct labor cost is the allocation base. The rate used is 100 percent of direct labor cost. Last year, revenue, materials, and direct labor were as follows. Sales revenue Direct labor Direct materials a. Baseball Bats $1,580,000 320,000 564,000 b. Required: a. Compute the profit for each product using plantwide allocation. b. Maria, the manager of Department T, was convinced that tennis rackets were really more profitable than baseball bats. She asked her colleague in accounting to break down the overhead costs for the two departments. She discovered that had department rates been used, Department B would have had a rate of 50 percent of direct labor cost and Department T would have had a rate of 200 percent of direct labor cost. Recompute the profits for each product using each department's allocation rate (based on direct labor cost). Tennis Rackets Using plantwide allocation Using department's allocation rate $1,125,000 160,000 293,000 Baseball Bats Profit Tennis Rackets